Journey Stinkin' Rocks!

If you haven't been to Journey on Sunday nights, you are missing out. It is totally diverse, totally authentic, and just a killer place to hang out on Sunday night and learn about Jesus. Keith brings it in a style that's raw, passionate, and sincere. His heart is for Jesus, and it shows each week by the Holy Spirit leaking out of him. Our worship is stinkin' awesome. We make mistakes, we botch it every once in awhile, and that's what's so cool about it. It's not polished churchy type worship. It's real. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will explode Journey. I believe Journey is on the cusp of exploding, and it's cool to watch and anticipate His next move. Let's take it to the street! Acts 5:42 says it best...And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ!!

Keeping My Ears Wide Open

This past week me, my wife, and two of our close friends attended a church planting conference in Orlando Florida. When me and my wife signed up for this a couple of months ago, I was really asking myself why? We spent two "long" days of travel, and two days of non stop sessions listening to some great pastors, and one "not so exciting" Just being honest! It confirmed my passion to take Jesus to the streets and to our culture in a way that they understand. But most assuredly without, I repeat without compromising the gospel. I look forward to what God has planned for our future. Only he knows, but I have a feeling he's up to something, but won't tell. He's God, he can do that. So for know I will just sit back, relax and enjoy the ride with my ears wide open. It's a jumbled up foreign language right now, but as I sit intently listening closely, the words will become clearer. Crystal clear if I know Him. It will be interesting to look back at this blog in 6 months to a year. Stay tuned!

Frozen Orange Juice Concentrate

This blog is a total outlet for me. I don't even know if anyone reads it, but it sure is a great place to put my thoughts on screen. Right now I am in a place where God is doing some amazing things in my life. My ears are wide open and I hear him speaking loud and clear for the first time in a long time. The hardest thing for me to remember right now is that many people are not in the same place as me right now with their relationships with God. So I really have to watch myself so that I don't come across as some scary religous pit bull ready to bite your head off and change the world. I would compare it to frozen orange juice concentrate. Huh? Yeah. You know when you pour (or squeeze) that frozen OJ out of the can into the pitcher? It's undiluted, raw, full strength. You know when you lick it and it tastes too strong in its concentrate form. That's where I am right now! And I want to stay there! I don't want to be diluted with 3 cans of water. Then I become palpable and easy to swallow, a place where most Christians are. I want to stay in the raw undiluted form and make people say...Whoa! that's different, that's not at all what "I'm used to" that's too strong for me, let's water it down so it's easier to swallow. My prayer is that God will use me and my influencial sphere of friends to do great things in our community. He is alive and well and moving freely in Bend Oregon.